SheldonDLTeam

Sheldon Digital Learning Team:

October, 2014

• Hurdle & High Jump Share: Start of Year
• Top 2 Apps (per campus)
• Affordances & Constraints
  • App Critiques
• Thinking Creatively: Teachers As Designers of Technology, Pedagogy & Content

• Setting Up Spaces
  • activity template
  • activity bank
  • digital library
  • more...?

• Monique Boone & Matthew Linchek
  • Wagner - 7 Principles
  • Papert - 8 Big Ideas
• Debbie Butler & Andres Chavez
  • John Seely Brown: Tinkering as a Mode of Knowledge Production
  • http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/papers/kindergarten-learning-approach.pdf

Subject	Author	Replies	Views	Last Message
Papert - Big 8	swilkie	1	50	Aug 11, 2014 by mrlincheck
Wagner's 7 Principles/Survival Skills	swilkie	1	53	Aug 11, 2014 by mrlincheck
MIT: Lifelong Kindergarten	swilkie	1	43	Aug 11, 2014 by digitalman737
JSB Tinkering	swilkie	1	39	Aug 11, 2014 by digitalman737

• Chavez & Lincheck
• Boone & Butler
  • Share summaries
    • What connections are you drawing between and among different resources?
    • What implications might these messages have for teaching and learning?
    • Which elements are familiar to you as a teacher? As a learner?
    • Which elements are newer or less familiar?
  • Roles
    • As a learner:
      • What roles did your best teachers play?
      • What roles did other good teachers play?
      • Which of these roles might support the culture of teaching & learning being sought by SheldonISD?
    • As a teacher:
      • What roles have you played?
      • What roles have other teachers played?
      • How have these influenced the roles of your students? Of other teachers?
      • Which of these roles might support the culture of teaching & learning being sought by SheldonISD?
    • As a student:
      • What roles might students be called to play in the learning environments being described in resources above?
      • Which of these roles might support the culture of teaching & learning being sought by SheldonISD?
      • How might we foster the development of these roles?

Subject	Author	Replies	Views	Last Message
Teacher Roles	swilkie	3	43	Aug 11, 2014 by swilkie
Learner Roles	swilkie	2	29	Aug 11, 2014 by mrlincheck
Student Roles (today & tomorrow)	swilkie	4	48	Aug 11, 2014 by mrlincheck

• As a coach, what roles might you play? (good, bad & ugly - get them all out!)
• How might these roles shape or influence your teachers?
  • A Learning Culture
    • If Students Designed Their Own Schools
    • 21Ct Schools or Learning
    • Any roles to add?
  • Discuss:
    • Be prepared for misconceptions
      • partnering w Instructional Coaches (IC) - foster understanding of role
      • trainer v coach
      • comfort w discomfort
      • safety v answers
      • co-learning v expert (ex: Questioning (cl) and Online Discussions (e) )
      • boot strapping
      • engaging w teachers as learners in each Cohort session
      • non-evaluative
      • standing session w Principal
• Our Roles: Clarifying Misconceptions
  • What it is/What is isn't (district-wide)
  • Strategies:
    • model, model, model...
      • Start simple
      • Work on things you like
      • If you don't have a clue, fiddle around
      • Don't be afraid to say "I don't know"....then experiment!
      • Find a friend to work with
      • Share your ideas
      • Learn Out Loud
      • It's ok to copy stuff to give you an idea or get started - just honor efforts of others by giving credit
      • Keep your ideas in a "sketch book" (learning journal)
      • Build, take apart, rebuild
      • Stick With It! (lots can go wrong!)
        • list adapted from MIT: Lifelong Learning
    • consistency
    • transparency
    • flexibility
  • Ongoing development

• What it might be/What won't be (campus specific)
  • prioritizing & protecting time
    • for teachers
    • for learning
    • collecting & sharing artifacts
      • http://langwitches.org/blog/2014/05/26/week-4-mooc-coaching-teachers-promoting-changes-that-stick/
      • https://plus.google.com/+AndresChavezSISD/posts
  • cohort, first
    • then grade level/discipline teams, media sp, etc.
    • team meetings (1-2:month; show & share resources, links to tutorials, etc. --> promote self-feeding)
    • staff meetings
  • Becky as your firewall
  • review mock schedule discussed in June
• Year Ahead:
  • Aug, Oct, Nov, Jan, Feb, Mar, May
    • 1/2 day w Becky/1/2 day w Coaches
    • 1 day w Cohort

1. Please take a moment to review replies posted to Sheldon ISD: Digital Learning Blog
2. Reflecting on our afternoon together...
   • What has surprised you today?
   • What new questions have surfaced?
   • What lingering questions remain?
3. Please post your replies to Coaches Reflections: Day 1